Halo Infinite - Former Bungie director Paul Bertone joins 343

[Lord Mittens]

Former Bungie director joins 343 Industries to work on Halo Infinite

A veteran Halo developer has returned to "help lead the future" of Halo Infinite.

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A veteran Halo developer has returned to "help lead the future" of Halo Infinite.

• Former Bungie director Paul Bertone has joined 343 Industries to work on Halo Infinite.
• Bertone has signed on as Technical Design Director. In this position, he will help bridge the gap between design and programming.
• Bertone originally worked on Bungie's five Halo games before leaving the studio in 2012, working with other developers like Undead Labs before returning to Halo in 2022.

Looks like Joe is starting to call in some favors - hopefully getting more control over the future of Halo? Get outta the way Bonnie Ross!

 

[mansoor1980]

but he will still work UNDER bonnie ross , she is the boss.

 

[Lord Mittens]

but he will still work UNDER bonnie ross , she is the boss

Unfortunately yes, I hope the teams (not upper management) can pull through with what they want to create.
Having Veterans like Staten and now Paul is good.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

He us getting paid. That is for sure.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

but he will still work UNDER bonnie ross , she is the boss.

Maybe in name only.

 

[Dick Jones]

but he will still work UNDER bonnie ross , she is the boss.

Be under Bonnie Ross...

you had me at under Bonnie Ross

 

[Remember_Spinal]

So he was at undead labs before this?

 

[DynamiteCop]

Well stuff like this is nice to hear, Infinite is a fantastic game it's just too spread thin development wise.

 

[Lord Mittens]

So he was at undead labs before this?

Not for long it seems

He later had a six-month spell as design lead at State of Decay studio Undead Labs, and more recently he spent over two years in the same role at Highwire Games, the studio behind PlayStation VR title Golem and the upcoming Six Days in Fallujah.

 

[mansoor1980]

Be under Bonnie Ross...

you had me at under Bonnie Ross

that is why i typed UNDER instead of under

 

[Cragarmi]

Not for long it seems

He later had a six-month spell as design lead at State of Decay studio Undead Labs, and more recently he spent over two years in the same role at Highwire Games, the studio behind PlayStation VR title Golem and the upcoming Six Days in Fallujah.

Doesn't appear to have had much luck of late

 

[Bodycount611]

damn, i wonder whatever happened to 6 days in Fallujah. Haven't heard a peep in ages.

 

[Papacheeks]

Former Bungie director joins 343 Industries to work on Halo Infinite

A veteran Halo developer has returned to "help lead the future" of Halo Infinite.

www.windowscentral.com

A veteran Halo developer has returned to "help lead the future" of Halo Infinite.

• Former Bungie director Paul Bertone has joined 343 Industries to work on Halo Infinite.
• Bertone has signed on as Technical Design Director. In this position, he will help bridge the gap between design and programming.
• Bertone originally worked on Bungie's five Halo games before leaving the studio in 2012, working with other developers like Undead Labs before returning to Halo in 2022.

Looks like Joe is starting to call in some favors - hopefully getting more control over the future of Halo? Get outta the way Bonnie Ross!

Funny I was in another discord thats not affilated with any members from gaf or Icon. And I said that Joe needs to build his own halo dev team. People told me I was stupid, and now it looks like thats happening.

Because 343 before Joe Staten are just not good at developing Halo. It looks like Joe is getting the old guard back to help guide 343. It's the right move in my opinion but holy shit why the fuck did it take 4 releases to make these changes? After MCC I would have literally pumped the brakes and not have green lit anything and stopped production on halo 5. Then I would assess, and brought in Joe as a consultant, and I think if they had done that earlier we would be in a different position. But also that was during a time where Microsoft acted like they didnt care about Xbox.

 

[Bodycount611]

it's baffling how a studio this large could bungle post-launch support to this extent. really wonder how Bonnie Ross is still in charge of anything, especially after the job she's done over the years.

If Rod Fergusson lost his job for mismanaging and bungling Gears 5, Bonnie should as well. She's been catastrophic to the Halo brand.

 

[Darth Vader]

Two things come to mind when talking about insufficient games:

• you can't polish a turd
• a pig with lipstick is still a pig

Halo Infinite will never be a good game. It's serviceable, but no matter who they hire, it will never be good, proper good.

 

[mansoor1980]

they have still not fixed the performance of the campaign mode on PC , very disappointing.